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The Board of Trustees approved a Student Senate constitutional amendment, giving them more authority. Here’s how Graduate Student Senate responded. Graduate Student Senate (GSS) enacted a resolution Tuesday to reassert their independence from Student Senate. The Board of Trustees approved a Student Senate resolution allowing the senate to change its constitution without approval from the Ohio University Board of Trustees …

The two student trustees spoke before Student Senate. But what do the student trustees do? Student trustees, whose job is to attend board of trustees meetings and speak on behalf of students, spoke before Student Senate on Wednesday to ask for suggestions for their upcoming meeting with the Ohio University Board of Trustees. Student Trustees Faith Voinovich and Austin McClain …

Student Senate also voted to oppose two Ohio House Bills regarding SNAP benefits, and formally recognized the Fourth National Climate Assessment. In their final session of the semester, Student Senate voted to oppose the Athens County Board of Elections’ move to a new location on Campbell Street. The Athens County Board of Elections recently held an open forum, in which …

Members from the Board of Trustees also discussed issues regarding disability, state higher education funding, and sexual assaults on campus. Members of the Ohio University Board of Trustees addressed Student Senate at the body’s Wednesday night meeting on the importance of voting in the upcoming gubernatorial election. “You ought to know what the governor thinks about this, about higher education,” …

At the November Faculty Senate meeting, senators discussed the possibility of a fall break, budget concerns and issues with the advisory committee for the university’s free speech policy. Fall break? Chris Schwirian, a senior lecturer at Ohio University, gave a brief presentation asking his fellow senate members for feedback on Reading Day and the potential for a fall break for …

As construction continues on a multi-million dollar tutoring facility for student athletes, opinion writer Tim Zelina argues it’s unnecessary and the university’s reasoning for building the facility is unclear. Ohio University has started construction of a massive academic center built exclusively for student athletes. Named after its primary financiers, the Sook family, the Sook Center will be a $6 million …

The Board of Trustees met last Friday for the final time this academic year. It was both a first and a last: incoming president Duane Nellis’ first meeting, and chair of the Board David Wolfort’s last. Here is what they discussed: Tuition increases Starting the next academic year, tuition will increase 2 percent for regional campuses, where tuition varies based …

Heather Willard contributed reporting ________________________________________________________________________________ Editor’s Note: As of Feb. 9, Robert Frank is no longer in the running for Ohio University president. Frank withdrew his name from consideration in an email to the university. The Ohio University Board of Trustees will vote to appoint the new president on Feb. 22 at the Dublin branch campus, rather than at its …

The Ohio University Board of Trustees discussed issues ranging from the president’s interim replacement to the controversial issue of whether to allow concealed carry weapons on OU campuses when they met last Thursday and Friday. On Friday morning, the board discussed the ongoing debate over HB 48, which deals with campuses’ ability to decide whether they will allow concealed carry …

A new Ohio law giving colleges and universities the option of allowing concealed carry on their campuses has received significant attention at Ohio University, drawing action from various governing bodies at the school. However, the response OU students and faculty have given to the law is greater than that of many other colleges around the state, which either have yet …

Student Senate held its first of two forums on Thursday to address how a concealed carry referendum will work. At the last Senate hearing, Senators voted to put the question of allowing concealed carry weapons on campus to Ohio University students. The result of the campus’ vote will be issued to the Board of Trustees as a recommendation on deciding …

Ohio University has fallen drastically in U.S. News & World Report rankings, at an average of three spots per year, since President Roderick McDavis took office in 2004. The Board of Trustees brushed off 2016’s all-time lowest ranking at its meeting last Friday, saying rankings do not account for much of what makes the university a strong institution. Ranked 146th …

Student Senate addressed the CATS initiative and reintroduced conversation about the Survivor Advocacy Program following the former Roger E. Ailes Newsroom resolution. Several new resolutions were passed and multiple commissioners and senators were appointed on Wednesday night. Vice President Courteney Muhl presented a plan for Senate to fund an advertising campaign for SAP, following the administration’s current promotion of awareness …

Almost immediately after the March announcement of Ohio University President Roderick McDavis’ retirement, questions arose as to whom the Board of Trustees would choose as his replacement. While many leaks have spread within recent months, the Board of Trustees has remained relatively silent in regards to its plans for a new president. That is, until the Board’s Sept. 7 news …

The Ohio University Board of Trustees held a public forum Tuesday to allow faculty, staff, students and community members to voice opinions about the kind of candidate who should replace President Roderick McDavis. David Wolfort, chair of the Board of Trustees, hosted the event while John Thornburgh and Dennis Barden, both senior partners of Witt/Kieffer, sat alongside him. The organization …

Members of City Council approved funding toward the creation of a new municipal pool, presented Ohio University’s Master Plan and announced an award nomination at the meeting on Monday. “It’s been a long, long, long, long time coming,” Mayor Steve Patterson said about the approval of funds for the pool. Council member Jennifer Cochran, D-At Large, communicated concerns from citizens …

Ohio University President Roderick McDavis announced his resignation, effective June 30, 2017, at Thursday’s Board of Trustees meeting. “I am giving this notice 16 months in advance so that the Board of Trustees has plenty of time to undertake a thoughtful, presidential search process and to ensure a smooth transition for our great university,” McDavis said. McDavis is the 20th …

On Friday, the Board of Trustees will vote on Ohio University’s Comprehensive Master Plan that proposes many campus alterations. The Comprehensive Master Plan was developed after five phases of work to “define, assess, envision, test and synthesize” the vision for the campus and address concerns about future changes. The Master Plan focuses largely on the fact that OU is a …

The Ohio University Board of Trustees will decide the fate of tuition rates for incoming freshman Friday morning at their bimonthly meeting. If the measure is approved, members of the class of the 2020 who qualify for in-state tuition will pay 1.7 percent ($196) more for tuition than current freshmen, while out-of-state students will pay 5.6 percent ($500) more. Members …

From rallies to elections to resignations, Ohio University had a big year. Here are the biggest events of 2015. Editor’s Note: TNP does minimal reporting in the months of May, June, July and December, so those months are excluded. JANUARY Raise Hell, Not Tuition Rally — Student Union members rallied students against raising tuition before the official Board of Trustees …

The Ohio University Board of Trustees passed the Ridges Framework Plan during Friday’s meeting in Walter Hall, continuing the university’s plan to revitalize the neglected part of campus. With the Framework Plan passed, the vision to repurpose most of the area will move onto creating specific plans for the historic buildings, which are “in good shape structurally” and “adaptable for …

“This is what Democracy looks like!” cried the hundreds students and faculty as they gathered in protest on the sidewalks of 29 Park Place Tuesday evening to voice their opinions about the University-funded $1.2 million residence that will now temporarily house President Roderick McDavis and his family. Due to a bat infestation that arose in February of this year, the …

Ohio University president Dr. Roderick J. McDavis and First Lady Deborah McDavis will soon relocate to a new home. The change in location will cost the university $1.2 million. During a time where students are struggling to get by financially especially with rising tuition, the McDavis family gets a new home. The moving situation is occurring because of an infestation …

The Ohio University Student Union, upset with recent developments with the Board of Trustees, expressed their unhappiness Friday evening by putting on the satirical show “The Board: A Dark Comedy with Pizza.” Written by Chrissy Hallaman and performed before an audience of over 70 people, the show made fun of the perceived attitude of the Board of Trustees, poking fun …

With no relatively controversial topics being voted on during today’s meeting, the Board of Trustees will do what they do best: move money around for projects and scholarships. The new scholarships benefit the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, with $3 million being used for the Student Scholarship Fund and $2 million for the Research Scholarly Advancement Support Fund. These scholarships …

During Wednesday night’s meeting, Student Senate offered their support for a mock Board of Trustees meeting taking place just hours after the actual one. The mock meeting, titled “The Board: A Dark Comedy with Pizza”, is an Ohio University Student Union event aimed to “dramatize their glamorous and powerful lives as the policy-makers of our university.” “We want to share …

No guaranteed tuition hikes. Fully fund the Survivor Advocacy Program on their own terms. No new pipelines. These were the chants of about 25 protesters as they interrupted the Ohio University Board of Trustees Friday morning. One minute later, the trustees suspended the meeting and left the room, and three of the protesters were escorted out of …

Student Senate made it official Wednesday night: they condemn the Ohio Guarantee Plan for guaranteed tuition and will fight to get rid of it. The body passed a resolution that both made an official condemnation of the plan and endorsed “the various actions students have taken and will take to protest this unfair policy,” according to the resolution. The vote …

Ohio University Student Senate will hold its last information session today at 7 p.m. for students interested in filling the soon-to-be vacant student trustee position. The chosen applicant would replace senior Amanda Roden and join junior Trustee Keith Wilbur in representing OU students as a whole on the Ohio University Board of Trustees, the university’s administrative authority for all general, …

The New Political’s Carl Soder recently sat down with Mary Kate Gallagher to discuss her return to Student Senate and her vice presidential victory. The conversation below has been edited for grammar and clarity. The New Political: When you left Student Senate last September, you mentioned some cases about how women were treated in Senate and overall lack of professionalism …

The Ohio University Board of Trustees has unanimously agreed to a new comprehensive guaranteed tuition model that could take effect as early as the 2015-2016 academic year, barring approval from the Board of Regents. Speaking from the floor of Walter Hall during Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting, Trustee Chairwoman Sandra Anderson extolled the proposal’s passage, citing it as exemplary of …

The Student Senate vice presidential election has been postponed one week and opened to the entire Ohio University student body after a din of student voices at Wednesday’s Student Senate meeting accused Senate of failing to represent their constituents. Over 20 students, many from the Ohio University Student Union, spoke out at the nearly three-hour meeting that also saw the …

About 40 students protested at Walter Hall Thursday afternoon, blocking Board of Trustee members from boarding the bus that was to carry them from their first day of meetings to their hotel. The Ohio University Student Union and supporters linked arms around the bus as they chanted slogans against tuition hikes and plans for a gas plant slated to replace …

On Nov. 1 the Board of Trustees announced that all Ohio University’s staff will receive a 1 percent pay raise. The Board of Trustees increased the merit pool by 1 percent, which results in a direct increase in staff (including President Roderick McDavis and Mrs. McDavis’) salaries. According to a press release on Ohio University’s website, there has been a …

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